In Defense of Final Fantasy 13
Editor's note: Final Fantasy 13 has drawn a number of critics for straying from accepted role-playing-game dogma. Michael, however, is happy with these changes...
Fantasy Online: The Poor Man’s World of Warcraft
If this game had come out six or seven years ago, xBlazeUK (the 15-year-old creator) would be a very rich programmer. Fantasy Online is...
The Evil L Word: A Look at Linearity in Gaming
Editor’s Note: Richard flexes his creative muscles here and tackles the topic of linear games from the perspective of a Roman Senator. I’m glad...
Spawn Labs lets you play your console games on the run (video)
Call it Slingbox for games. Spawn Labs lets you take a console game and play it over the web on a laptop or a...
Overused Terms in Game Journalism: Emo Edition
Editor's note: People often bandy about a somewhat amorphous term to describe video game fans and characters: "emo." What does it mean? I make...
The Geekbox — Episode 56
The Geekbox — Episode 56 (2010-03-09) Wherein we discuss live recordings, official Geekbox achievement contest updates, SyFy original movies, Lost 6×06, Burn Notice 3×16,...
GamesBeat@GDC: Booyah’s Keith Lee describes rapid growth of real-world location gaming (video)
Location-based gaming in the real world is a hit with gamers and a broader community of mobile app users. Booyah‘s Keith Lee has learned...
Game guru Sid Meier explains gamer psychology
Sid Meier knows how gamers think. He has been making hit games such as Civilization for decades. Today at the Game Developers Conference, he...
GamesBeat@GDC: Norwest’s Tim Chang wants to invest in the “game-ification” of life (video)
Tim Chang, principal at Norwest Venture Partners, spoke about where he wants to put his firm’s venture money in the game business on a...
GamesBeat@GDC: Disruption turns video games upside down (video)
Disruption 2.0 was the theme at our GamesBeat@GDC conference about the business of innovation in the video game industry. We had a great crowd...